…It's now time to add the vents to the design.…I want to open up just the cover piece.…So, you can see here, we have the sub-assembly here, and…assigned to that sub-assembly is this part, which is the cover.…Go ahead and click on Open Part, and there's just the cover piece.…Now, what I want to do is just add the vents along this edge, here,…but I want to roll it back prior to those two Mirror commands, so I'm only…seeing this one quarter, so we get the benefit of using that Mirror command…and using the Mirror Body, which is…going to propagate those events to all four sides.…

Starting at the top, start a sketch.…And, I want to draw a rectangle, which is going to be my vent hole.…And, my vent is going to be roughly down here.…We'll make it a little bit over-sized at first.…I'm going to click on this edge here, and I'm going to click on this edge here.…I'm going to make those two co-linear.…And then, I want to make sure that this vent's kind of on-center.…So, I'm going to add a point to the center point of this line, here, and…

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Real-world projects are vital to mastering SOLIDWORKS, and sheet metal enclosures are a perfect example of a typical project. Sheet metal enclosures house and protect circuitry, wiring, and other sensitive electronic parts and frequently require customization by a professional CAD designer. So take a firsthand walk through designing a sheet metal enclosure for circuit boards and panel-mounted connectors, as well as fans, power cords, and switches, with SOLIDWORKS. Gabriel Corbett covers the key techniques for working with in-context parts and assemblies that dynamically adjust based on the master part model. He'll show you how to use equations to drive the size of the box and calculate vent holes, work with circuit boards, and download connector components. Plus, learn how to add decals before prepping the final drawings for manufacturing.